Author and social media expert Luan Wise continues her series of articles for GMA readers – a step-by-step guide to using social media correctly to enhance your business.
An affiliate marketing career can be hugely rewarding, both personally and financially, but it takes application and effort to make it a real success. Phil Coleman shares his expertise.
As a result of new and emerging technologies, today we have access to unprecedented levels of data. It’s helping us to understand and predict human behaviour in ways we’ve never experienced before. As such, the potential to personalise, customise and enhance the customer journey is huge. And yet . . . that data gold mine has no value without effective and intelligent analytics, warns Rachit Khare.
Go beyond analytics and consumer insights, says Becky Wang. Modern marketing is about creativity and data, about designing services, products and communications that combine to take marketing to an inspirational level.
The online experience can be affected by spammers attempting to boost interest in trending topics and attack bots trying to impersonate human users. Generally, these impersonator bots are up to no good; what can be done about them?
Despite all the buzz around beacon technology as the new and exciting frontier of customer engagement, are marketing messages and promotions sent as part of a pre-existing transactional conversation still more effective and less intrusive?
Where is the marketers’ Holy Grail? It’s in listening to customers, collecting and analysing their data and then acting on any insight that provides a business case for improvement. Plus, you need internal ambassadors and . . .
Why should businesses switch on to social media? Does all that liking and sharing truly drive sales? The GMA asked expert practitioner Clive Roach to shed light on how he has been harnessing the channel for the brand, Philips – showing how the company reaps the rewards of its social media success.
Great marketing has always been driven by data but that trend is now accelerating and data driven marketing is clearly here to stay. Craig Hanna welcomes readers to this new data driven age and to the new look GMA website – which focuses on data driven channels, data innovation and data strategy.
Consumers no longer just want, but expect ‘in the moment marketing’, and want brands to be following live events as they are. Branding communication must be constant and relevant. However, ‘marketing on the fly’ is not as easy and spontaneous as it may seem . . .